Director: MediAct
Synopsis: Korean workers against the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement.
Category Archives: Genre
Kraft Television Theatre: “Patterns” (1955)
59m; U.S.
Director: Fielder Cook
Synopsis: A business psychological drama about a CEO of a company who tries to psychologically intimidate a Vice President into resigning (since at the VP and above level you don’t fire staff according to the CEO). This TV play centers around the interaction between the CEO and the VP, the CEO and the person that’s supposed to replace the VP (though he wasn’t hired knowing this), the CEO and the new hire and the new hire and the VP.
Kuhle Wampe (1932)
71m; Germany
Director: Slatan Dudow
Synopsis: Fragmented vignettes combine to make a political statement about working class potential in Germany, just before it was blocked by Fascism.
L’America (1994)
116m; Italy
Director: Gianni Amelio
Cast: Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido and Piro Milkani
Synopsis: (IMDB): Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a stooge. They choose an old one in a jail : Spiro. But the youngest italian, Gino, once alone with Spiro, encounter a few problems. Far from his roots, loosing his identity in deep Albania, he begins to change…
L’Atalante (1934)
89m; France
Director: Jean Vigo
Synopsis: Portrait of couple and the crew of a cargo boat on the Seine. When separated, the women finds a job and survives and the man falls apart.
Land of the Dead (2005)
93m; U.S.
Director: George Romero
Cast: John Leguizamo, Asia Argento and Simon Baker
Synopsis: The fourth and most politically savvy of Romero¹s gory and satirical cycle of flesh-eating zombie movies shows us a world almost completely taken over by the ghouls. A group of rich Americans (led by Dennis Hopper) have protected themselves from the living dead in a heavily guarded luxury high-rise. Outside, other survivors with presumably less money scavenge for the wealthy amidst the zombie population, which is becoming increasingly intelligent and organized. –
L’enfant (The Infant) [2005]
95m; Belgium
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Cast: Jérémie Renier, Déborah François and Jérémie Segard
Synopsis: Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.
Ironweed (1987)
143m; U.S.
Director: Hector Babenco
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep and Carroll Baker
Synopsis (IMDB): A schizophrenic drifter spends Halloween in his home town after returning there for the first time in decades.
Island in the Sun (1957)
119m; U.K.
Director: Robert Rossen
Cast: James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte
Synopsis (IMDB): Set on a fictitious island in the Carribean during colonial British rule. It focuses on the life of a young charismatic and handsome black man with political aspirations. He finds himself confused on returning home when his romantic liaison with a white female tends to conflict with his political views. As rumor has it an interracial screen kiss caused quite a commotion in the U.S. when the film was released. The plot is further strengthened by a look at the lives of a white ex-pat family also living on the island. The family has to deal with problems of infidelity, racism and murder.
Isn’t This a Time! (2004)
90m; U.S.
Director: Jim Brown
Synopsis: Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Theodore Bikel, Peter Paul & Mary and more celebrate folk music as an agent of social change, and links it explicitly to today’s struggles, including the war in Iraq. Inspiring.
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